Platform Infrastructure Engineer

About Bullish

Bullish is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services. These include:   Bullish   Exchange   – a regulated and institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange, integrating a high-performance central limit order book matching engine with automated market making to provide deep and predictable liquidity. Bullish Exchange is regulated in Germany, Hong Kong, and Gibraltar.   CoinDesk   Indices   – a collection of tradable proprietary and single-asset benchmarks and indices that track the performance of digital assets for global institutions in the digital assets and traditional finance industries.   CoinDesk   Data   - a broad suite of digital assets market data and analytics, providing real-time insights into prices, trends, and market dynamics.   CoinDesk   Insights   – a digital asset media and events provider and operator of   Coindesk.com , a digital media platform that covers news and insights about digital assets, the underlying markets, policy, and blockchain technology.

Reports to:
Lead Engineer, Platform Engineering

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Platform Infrastructure Engineer to help build, run, and scale the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) foundation powering our high-performance trading exchange. In this role, you’ll work directly alongside senior engineers to design automated infrastructure, manage production Cloud, Kubernetes environments, and deliver developer-friendly tooling.

This is an exceptional growth opportunity for an engineer who wants to master cloud-native infrastructure at scale, deepen their expertise in low-latency systems, and accelerate their career in the digital assets industry.

What You’ll Do:

- Execute Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Write, test, and deploy modular Terraform code to provision safe, repeatable cloud environments on GCP and other cloud providers.
- Support Production Kubernetes: Maintain and optimize Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, supporting containerized services with focus on uptime, networking, and scaling.
- Integrate and utilize AI-powered tools to enhance platform operations: Apply LLM-based coding assistants to accelerate infrastructure provisioning and debugging. As well as managing and improving the AI platform used by all teams.
- Enhance CI/CD & Developer Experience: Collaborate with application development teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines and accelerate code deployments to production.
- Troubleshoot & Respond: Participate in incident response, dig into root causes alongside senior team members, and build long-term fixes to prevent recurrence.
- Optimize Cloud Resources & Cost Efficiency: Balance cloud spend with high performance, scaling efficiency, and strict security standards.
- Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to define robust cloud architecture and champion industry best practices.
- Expand Developer Self-Service (Backstage IDP): Build and enhance our Backstage internal developer portal to streamline workflows and boost productivity across all engineering teams.

Experience & Qualifications:

- Proven expertise in designing and managing cloud environments, including compute, storage, networking, and security components.
- Solid working knowledge of containers and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.) in production or staging environments.
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
- Understanding of continuous integration/deployment platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD).
- Understanding of networking fundamentals (VPCs, DNS, load balancers, firewalls).
- Eagerness to learn, strong problem-solving skills, and a disciplined approach to reliability and security.
- Effective communicator who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced team environment.

Preferred:

- Applicable cloud certifications, such as Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
- Ability to automate tasks using Python, Bash, or Go.
- Exposure to financial technology, crypto systems, or high-volume web platforms.

Bullish US LLC & CoinDesk Inc. are committed to offering competitive compensation and benefits. The anticipated base salary for this position is $150,000 - $185,000 + discretionary annual target bonus + performance incentives/benefits. The offered salary will be reflective of job-related knowledge, skills and commensurate experience.

Bullish is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are fast evolving and striving towards being a globally-diverse community. With integrity at our core, our success is driven by a talented team of individuals and the different perspectives they are encouraged to bring to work every day.